Broad-Brush Approach Dooms WC Strategic Plans

“For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong.” While H.L. Mencken formulated this adage more than 50 years ago, its safe to say that “simple solutions” remain just as seductive as ever.

Are we getting more reluctant to taste the bitter medicine necessary for truly lasting solutions? Or in this electronic era, are we simply more impatient for a problem to be solved? Perhaps some of both.

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